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Rugby Sevens World Championship provides testing ground for L.A. 2028 Olympics
The Rugby Sevens World Championship provided fans and players a taste of what to expect from the rugby sevens competition at the 2028 L.A. Olympic Games.
South Africa men, New Zealand women win the Sevens world championship titles in Los Angeles
South Africa’s men and New Zealand’s women have been crowned 2025 Rugby Sevens world champions after winning their respective ...
World Rugby’s sevens overhaul branded ‘Machiavellian’
World Rugby has been called “shameful, unprofessional and Machiavellian” after the global governing body overhauled the world ...
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TALKING POINT: Sevens overhaul may backfire and hurt smaller nations
The new model now has 13 tournaments in an attempt - via the press release “to boost rugby sevens’ global reach ahead of the LA 2028 Olympics.” But even that is misleading. Two years ago ...
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World Rugby announces overhaul of sevens structure
May 1 (Reuters) - World Rugby will introduce a new sevens structure in 2026 which will have a three-division regular ...
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Blitzboks, New Zealand women win Rugby Sevens World Championships in LA
The Springbok Sevens defeated Spain 19-5 in the men's final while New Zealand's Black Ferns - who had already claimed the ...
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Rugby 'shaken' as Olympic medallist dead at 30
Josaia Raisuqe, who won the men's rugby sevens silver medal with Fiji at the Paris 2024 Olympics, has died, his club Castres Olympique said in a statement. He was 30 years old.Castres, a rugby union ...
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'Much loved by everyone': Tributes flow for Fijian sevens star after car crash tragedy
Josaia Raisuqe, a Paris Olympics rugby sevens medalist for Fiji, has died in a road crash at the age of 30. Castres rugby ...